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**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025**'Ferociously smart and full of surprises' Eleanor Catton'Instantly bewitching' Jennifer Egan'A rich generational saga that teems with intelligence' Financia ...

**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025**'Ferociously smart and full of surprises' Eleanor Catton'Instantly bewitching' Jennifer Egan'A rich generational saga that teems with intelligence' Financial TimesThe astonishing story of one family swept up in the tides of the twentieth century, ranging from post-war Japan to suburban America and the North Korean regimeOne evening, ten-year-old Louisa and her father take a walk out on the breakwater. They are spending the summer in a coastal Japanese town while her father Serk, a Korean emigre, completes an academic secondment from his American universi